BlackBerry becomes a landline phone

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BlackBerry becomes a landline phone
30th January 2007

Speech Design, a leading European provider of messaging and mobility solutions for companies and network operators, is now a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program of Research in Motion ® (RIM). With its membership in the BlackBerry Alliance Program, Speech Design intends to accelerate the continued development of the Teleserver Mobile Pro mobility solution.

BlackBerry becomes a landline phone

Teleserver Mobile Pro integrates all BlackBerry® smartphones into a company network as "mobile extensions", thereby enhancing BlackBerry capabilities with many of the convenient functions already provided by a company’s telephone system. All office calls can now be made and accepted either on the BlackBerry or on the landline phone, as desired.

One-number service

Mobile employees are reachable and functional under the same business number (office - landline number) wherever they happen to be. Calls can be accepted and processed from any location. In addition, the BlackBerry can now be used for consultation hold, call forwarding and setting up of conferences just as easily, quickly and flexibly as on an office telephone.

One mailbox

A single mailbox is used to inform employees of all voice messages, which can be conveniently listened to on the PC. Mobile Pro supports many of the existing voice mail systems and the cell phone mailbox.

SPEECH DESIGN is a leading European provider of messaging and mobility solutions for the corporate and carrier markets.

More than 100,000 companies and millions of individual users benefit daily from SPEECH DESIGN´s added-value communications solutions delivered by our partners: Europe´s premier suppliers of enterprise and public networks.

SPEECH DESIGN was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Germany. In 2005, SPEECH DESIGN had 90 employees and sales of approx. EUR 15 million.

98% of SPEECH DESIGN´s shares are held by Bogen Communications International, Inc., a US corporation located in Ramsey, New Jersey.

We serve our customers through the Corporate Systems and Carrier Systems divisions:

SPEECH DESIGN Corporate Systems

Corporate Systems offer capabilities such as Voice Mail, Auto Attendant,Unified Messaging and Music-On-Hold. The new, rapidly growing range of Mobility Solutions integrates employees´ mobile phones with the office PBX, streamlining in- and out-of-office communications and reducing overall communications cost.

The systems are delivered as plug-and-play "black boxes", networked server solutions or PBX-integrated boards developed jointly with the PBX manufacturer.

SPEECH DESIGN´s Corporate Systems are distributed by major European PBX manufacturers and providers, such as: Austria Telecom, Avaya, Deutsche Telekom, NextiraOne, Siemens and Swisscom, along with independent telecoms resellers and IT-system integrators.

SPEECH DESIGN Carrier Systems

Carrier Systems products and services include Next Generation Messaging (voice, text, video), Music and Tones, Call Completion-Solutions, Fixed-Line SMS-/MMS and other innovative added-value carrier solutions.

Our universal, open-standards-based THOR architecture is capable of integrating multiple services on a single platform, offering carriers unprecedented flexibility and reduced cost of ownership. Since its launch in 2001, THOR has been implemented in many service configurations by major international service providers, while being constantly improved and expanded.

Deutsche Telekom, Europe´s largest telecommunications company, has selected THOR as a strategic platform for its fixed-network messaging services. THOR systems are deployed and supported globally by SPEECH DESIGN´s partner network of leading system integrators.